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I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time. There are performan
by smelendez 10mo ago
I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time.
There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see which neighborhoods have had events deemed relevant to The New Yorker readership in different eras.
- paganel 10mo agoThat's a very neat idea! If you ever have the time to do it you should try it out, in fact you've gave me an idea of trying to do the same for my city, Bucharest, just need to find some relevant data-sources.
- smelendez 10mo agoTravel guides are interesting too although obviously not quite the same.
- bufordsharkley 10mo agoIt also speaks to what we lose when we lose magazine listings of events (New Yorker effectively gutted this section within the past decade), movie showtime listings via newspaper, etc We have a very strong archive going back a century until about 2015, but now wading through linkrot circa 2017 is miserable
- smelendez 10mo agoAnd the current era of less-than-major-venue music listings in many places is exclusively on Instagram and Facebook pages of venues and bands.
- gregsadetsky 10mo agoin addition to making a map, it would also be a fascinating timeline: you could show venues (as they appear/disappear through time) and artists, and filter/search those imagine seeing listings for John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Benny Goodman... let me know if I can help - it's a beautiful & great project idea!
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 10mo agoThat’s an incredible idea and I hope you do this! If you do, you should consider adding restaurants too.